• A 24-year-old woman died after overdosing on fentanyl while staying at a California rehabilitation facility.
• Melissa Bauman had long struggled with addiction and recently came in contact with fentanyl. Her mother, Karri Ryder, told KTLA5 that last summer her daughter was finally ready to get clean and not be “defined by her addiction.”
• On July 23, 2022, Ryder checked Bauman into Arlington Recovery Community and Sobering Center in Riverside, California in order to detox. She was placed in the facility’s residential treatment wing, which provides treatment for those struggling with mental illness and substance abuse.
• However, on the morning of July 26, Ryder received a call that her daughter had died at the rehab facility. Bauman’s death was ruled an accidental overdose on fentanyl, and her mother stated that she had 1.6 nanograms of fentanyl in her system.

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